Mark - good to see you're out and about - thanks - I will let you know if I have the problem again or if the drive that was on shows signs of cracking.
Don 2010/10/11 Mark Nepon <[email protected]> > If the str file is corrupt you might just have to use the str from a > previous backup or create a new one from a previous ste file. As long as you > have not added, modiified or deleted any fields it will just need > re-indexing and adjustment of any ::I or ::J auto incrementing fields to the > appropriate number to retain uniqueness of indexes using them. All the data > will be secure. Again this should all be done on a different computer. > > Best Regards, Mark > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:07:04 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Error 154 > > Pat - hey, I've been doing this for goodness knows how long and never found > this one either. The nature of my data is that it's static for an election > cycle so exporting it isn't really necessary if I have to re-import it. The > problem is the size of the data and the time it takes to import. Nor was I > able to export even if I wanted to - dp wouldn't let me in under any > condition nor would dpexp. I don't know anything about the raw coding so > even if I had a Forth editor (which I don't) I wouldn't have been able to > look inside and see what went wrong. > > It's a good thing I have fast computers. It takes just a matter of hours to > suck in a million voters and another couple of hours to populate the related > panels. Once the data is there it doesn't change except as to update some of > the related panels with information about the related records (how many > voters at an address, what their voting likelihood is based on past history, > etc.). I remember when I'd do my fall update while on vacation towards the > end of August and bring an AT machine with me along with a power backup and > literally watch data being soaked in for days at a time. By the end of two > weeks I would have accomplished about what I'll accomplish at the end of a > long evening. > > I'm more concerned about the possible disk errors that Tim alluded to. I'm > being real careful. > > > Thanks. > > Don > > 2010/10/11 Patrick Riley <[email protected]> > > Don, congratulations on breaking new ground. This is an error I've > never seen before. Here's the textbook information on an error 154: > > *Error 154 Attempt to read block 0 as text. > *The file DataPerfect is trying to read is corrupt or not a valid format. > Restore from backup. If there is no backup, try deleting the .IND file, > exporting all data, deleting panel files and .TXX file, importing data. > > I think the issue is not the report. Try exporting *without using the > indexes*, deleting everything except the STR file and importing each > panel. > > Good luck. > > Pat Riley > > > > At 09:30 AM 10/11/2010, you wrote: > > I am in an election cycle and was just modifying a report on a very large > voter database and got kicked out with an error code 154. Re-entering the > database doesn't work. Removing the index file and attempting to rebuild > that doesn't work. Trying to export the .str file so I could delete the > report I was working on doesn't work. Every attempt to use the database is > stymied by this error code. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could > recover this? > > > Don > > -- > Don Friedman > ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC > PRS Data Systems > 205 S Main Street > Pittsburgh, PA 15215 > 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE > 412-784-1615 Fax > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > > > > -- > Don Friedman > ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC > PRS Data Systems > 205 S Main Street > Pittsburgh, PA 15215 > 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE > 412-784-1615 Fax > > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > -- Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC PRS Data Systems 205 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15215 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax
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